APULICA / WALKS
The recognised walking routes across Puglia, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Abruzzo and Molise: stages, distances, credentials, places and food along the way, with official sources.
Hikers on the Majella at Passo Lanciano (Pretoro), Abruzzo · Photo: Enrico Strocchi / Flickr — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Resized and converted to WebP.
Lauria (Basilicata); the Calabrian section begins at Rocca Imperiale → Reggio Calabria · Over 1,560 km according to the official site's home page; other pages of the same site say over 1,500 km, while italia.it gives an earlier figure of 1,390 km. · 83 numbered stages on the official site, including variants and "wild" stages; the general introduction on the same page still says 81, and italia.it gives 73.
Calabria, Basilicata
L'Aquila, Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio → Ortona, Cathedral of St Thomas the Apostle · The official site gives 204 km in 12 days for the full route. The original Maiella hermitage section measures 84 km according to the home page and the route overview, while the stage 5 page and the Maiella National Park site give 82 km. · 12 stages from L'Aquila to Ortona, plus a variant via Manoppello between Macchie di Coco and Serramonacesca. The "Classic" hermitage route corresponds to stages 5 to 9 and takes 5 days.
Abruzzo
Several starting points, one per way: Bari, Alberobello, Brindisi, Albano di Lucania, Manduria → Matera, Cathedral of the Madonna della Bruna · No overall length: it is a network of ways. The official site gives Via Peuceta 168 km (170 in the text of the same page and on italia.it, 167 in the 2020 Pugliapromozione guide), Via Ellenica 170 km, Via Ellenica variant 137 km (but 118 km in the page text), Via Lucana 136 km, Via Jonica 215 km, Via Sveva 200 km (210 in the text) and Via Dauna 400 km; the Sveva and Dauna are not yet open. · It varies by way: Peuceta 7 stages, Ellenica 8, Ellenica variant 6, Lucana 7; the Via Jonica lists 5 stages from Manduria to Taranto plus a link stage to Statte. The Sveva (8 days) and Dauna (22 days) are not yet open.
Puglia, Basilicata, Molise
Lecce, Porta Napoli → Santa Maria di Leuca, De Finibus Terrae sanctuary · 115 km (Via del Mare). The Via dei Borghi measures 135 km in 6 stages according to both the official site and italia.it, but the official site states it is closed for 2026. · 5 stages on the Via del Mare, each between 20 and 25 km; the Via dei Borghi, closed in 2026, has 6.
Puglia
Rome, St Peter's Basilica → Ortona, Cathedral of St Thomas the Apostle · italia.it and the official site give 316 km. Other pages of the same official site speak of about 310 km and of the 313 km of its adopt-a-kilometre project. By mountain bike the recommended route measures 372 km. · 16 stages, one a day, according to italia.it and the official site; italia.it gives stages of about 25 km on flatter sections and about 15 km on those with more climbing. By mountain bike there are 7 recommended stages.
Abruzzo
L'Aquila, Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio → Monte Sant'Angelo, Church of St Michael the Archangel · The official site gives 543 km on foot in its summary figures, but its descriptive text speaks of more than 520 km, and the waymarking page of 520 marked km. The cycling version measures 440 km. · The official site gives 37 stages in its summary figures and 35 stages in its descriptive text. The stage list numbers 29 main stages (13 and 14 are merged) plus eight variants marked "bis"; the guidebook describes 29 stages plus 3 stages of a mountain variant. By bike there are 9 stages.
Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia
San Marco Argentano (Cosenza) → Monte Sant'Angelo in the Pollino massif, between Castrovillari and Morano Calabro (Calabria); the individual routes end at the sanctuaries of Paola, Paterno Calabro or Corigliano · 318.3 km in all according to the official site, as the sum of its four routes; italia.it instead gives 112 km with three variants, and a press review published by the Ministry of Tourism speaks of over one hundred kilometres. · 15 stages for the whole network: three on the Via del Giovane, three on the Via dell'Eremita, six on the Via dei Monasteri (its own page says six or seven) and three on the Via per la Francia.
Calabria
Reggio Calabria, where the trail returns to the mainland (stage SI U01) → Campotosto in Abruzzo (stage SI P13), from where the national trail continues towards Amatrice and beyond · About 8,000 km for the whole national trail according to the official project page (the FAQ gives 7,900–8,000 km). The CAI does not state the combined length of the sections in these six regions; for Calabria alone italia.it gives 654 km. · For the whole trail the FAQ speaks of more than 500 stages, while the project page mentions almost 400 stage points. The stage-card list shows 120 cards with codes P to U, variants included (R04 is missing). For Calabria italia.it gives 34 stages, while the CAI list has 32 Calabrian cards (U01–U32).
Calabria, Basilicata, Campania, Puglia, Molise, Abruzzo
Gambarie (Santo Stefano in Aspromonte, Reggio Calabria) → Serra San Bruno or Stilo, in the Serre · About 140 km according to the route's own site and italia.it; the Aspromonte National Park Authority's sheet on parks.it gives 120 km from Gambarie to the Serre, and the page on the Park's own site says over 100 km. · 7 stages, the last one splitting towards Bivongi/Stilo or towards Serra San Bruno; the site notes that stages can be split or merged (up to nine at most), and the Park's sheet speaks of six to eight days of walking.
Calabria
Rome → Santa Maria di Leuca · more than 900 km from Rome to Santa Maria di Leuca · No reachable source gives the overall number of stages. In Puglia the regional guide splits its four described itineraries into 5, 5, 6 and 7 walking days.
Puglia, Campania